Promising hope...for life.

"At BHGH, you have this amazing community of successful, smart people who wake up every day thinking about ways to help you and the other scholars in the program be successful. There’s just nothing like it!"

Seth, BHGH of St. Louis Collegian

Our Mission

Boys Hope Girls Hope helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.

Alumni Stories

“I was in 6th grade when I was faced with a choice. So far, I had been blessed, through scholarship, to get a private school education where I was challenged academically and spiritually. However, circumstances changed, and my family and I realized we would no longer be able to afford my school’s tuition, and that […]

“I was a kid who started in Cabrini-Green, one of the most dangerous and notorious public housing authorities. Boys Hope Girls Hope was a safe haven for me to receive a full-ride scholarship to college and earn a leadership role at a Fortune 500 company—all at the age of 26. None of it would have […]

In 2002, the summer before her senior year, Jiarra Jackson joined the Boys Hope Girls Hope program in New Orleans. It was the first year the program had a Girls Hope home. Her mother had passed by the time Jiarra was in the ninth grade, and her father was ill. He passed a month after […]